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Well the Vindicator's latest incarnation's interior is COMPLETE! Well it's mostly comprises of 16 flat and empty decks. But the inner engine housings, fuel tanks and pipes are all in place for whenever that feature arrives. Exterior now only need the weapon placements and some greebling work. All in all, this time it looks excellent.

I'm taking a break after I did some work on the "spine" and "neck". That moment when you can actually feel the scale of the ship is just amazing and terrifying.

Also worth noting, is that, while I am using the MK.II as the main body, I'm actually making the "Mk. III", my own version, taking the best aspects of the MK. I and the MK. II.

Basically using the structural and technical upgrades of the MK. II while replacing the main batteries of the MK. II with those found on the MK. I. But this time arranged in a more efficient manner for increased frontal fire power.

You probably already know this, but an ISD won't be completable in the current editor (I know, I've experimented).

IIRC, Snowdragon's ship is still the largest complete hull we have, and it only manages to be 1.2km long by being very narrow in the other two dimensions.

I'm also not certain if we'll be getting a converter to make .BRD files into the new .BRS format, or how long it might take after release before we get one. That's why all my secret projects are on hold.

You probably already know this, but an ISD won't be completable in the current editor (I know, I've experimented).

IIRC, Snowdragon's ship is still the largest complete hull we have, and it only manages to be 1.2km long by being very narrow in the other two dimensions.

I'm also not certain if we'll be getting a converter to make .BRD files into the new .BRS format, or how long it might take after release before we get one. That's why all my secret projects are on hold.

Yes, I am well aware that doing the entire body is currently impossible (I already tried a long time ago :p). Right now, I am working on it by "layers", so once the bridge is fully detailed exterior wise, the next part is the spine then the terraces. Beyond that i doubt i could work on the engines. By that moment the hull would already be larger than the Vindicator.

But i have faith in our devs that one day they will optimize the engine well enough to have this thing complete and ready for battle.

I am afraid not, however we should be able to open the converter for modding to allow users to edit how it converts. So if you wanted that old plasma block to be replaced by a new Gatling gun you should be able to set that up yourself. The issue is that most of the old blocks are gone, so we cannot convert them to a "new" version that does not exist.

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